Originally Posted by ironchef
I truly love what I do.
I hated it in school as well... funny thing. It's nothing like that when you work in it though. I've done public accounting in a firm, business tax returns and general tax work and now I am in private industry and just do everything from controlling the actual cash to profit and loss, budgets, KPI's, and other analysis for my company. I do easy stuff like payroll as well.
Working in public accounting was great because I had 80 clients that I was responsible for through out the year and then during tax season, their tax returns and any others I needed to pick up that were not full year clients. For my 80 base clients, I did any general accounting they needed through the year, audit follow up work for them, checking their books at intervals to make sure their accounting was correct and then producing financial statements for them. It was really cool because my clients were all kinds of businesses and I learned about them all. I did accounting for a hospital emergency room, an interior design business, a law firm, a non-profit agency, a pilates studio, dentist office, a printing company and countless more and I learned about them all and what goes into running that kind of business.
During tax season, it was hard. 70+ hours a week, weekends, nights, tons of work and pressure but it was always snowing so I had nothing else to do anyway... haha. It was really great working with people who had been in accounting for decades and I learned a ton.
One of my clients decided to seriously expand their business and they hired me out and now I work in private industry. I work for one business with no overtime, lots of control of my own work and it's great. The job stabilty of the industry is a real plus.
I know.. that was a long response but I wanted to try to explain that accounting isn't one job and one duty, depending on where you are and who you work for, it can be a very different experience.
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